Named in memory of Eleonora Yakovlevna Gal’perina (1912–1992), literary critic and translator, well-known under her pseudonym Nora Gal’ for her Russian translations of foreign works, namely those by the authors Theodor Dreiser, Ethel Lilian Voynich, Jack London {see planet  (2625)}, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry {see planet  (2578)} and others. (M 24916; M 26439) Name proposed by E. A. Taratuta. _ _.